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	Hamzanama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hamzanama is an artistic masterpiece created about 1558–1573 under the Mughal emperor Akbar.
		The Hamzanama was designed to augment a story-telling performance of the adventures of Hamza.
		The Hamzanama supports a broad world of possibilities for story-telling and seems to have been created to better enable diverse subjects to make sense of persons like themselves within the world of the romance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamzanama (242 words)

	Visual narratives
		K.S. Sixty-one of the extant 200 Hamzanama Manuscript Illustrations of the Mughal period constitute a major travelling exhibition in the West.
		However, for all the vivid details of the motifs, the texts do not notice that Hamzanama is anything but a pretension to represent the physical details convincing to the post-Renaissance eyes, either in terms of perspective or in terms of gestures and actions.
		Hamzanama illustrations foreground the complexity of the phenomena chiefly as a metaphor.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1926/stories/20030103001408300.htm (1310 words)

	Guardian \| That's magic
		Today, however, the Hamzanama is more or less extinct as an oral epic: while children in Persia and Pakistan are still familiar with many of the episodes of the tale, its last recorded recitation as a whole was in the early 20th century.
		Like the Mahabharat, the Hamzanama is a great miscellany of folk tales, legends, religious discourses and entertaining fireside yarns, which over time came to gather themselves around the story of the travels of the hero Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, the father-in-law of the Prophet.
		The narrative of the Hamzanama opens in Ctesiphon, not far from Baghdad, and encompasses places now in modern Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, most of which the west now seems to regard as little more than breeding grounds for terrorism, places to be tamed and subdued.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4614888-110428,00.html (1557 words)

	Hamzanama of Akbar: A Masterpiece of Art from the Islamic World
		The sense of the Hamzanama is not closely related to a given narrative. The initial artistic director of the Hamzanama was Mir Sayyid Ali, an Iranian-born artist who had been a junior member of the royal atelier that produced the magnificent Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp.
		In the Hamzanama, stories of the sword in stone, shooting an apple from an innocent’s head, and bending a nearly unbendable bow are taken out of context, compressed and adapted, and strung together like pearls.
		[121] While the Hamzanama provided an artifact that allowed all of Akbar’s subjects to revel in their own subjectivity, hodigitria present a different subjectivity, one insisting on her own presence. This difference is the most plausible explanation of what made the paintings of Mary sensational.
	www.galbithink.org /sense-s3.htm (6281 words)

	The Lady - The Adventures of Hamza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The appeal of the stories to the young ruler, who had succeeded his father at the age of 13, is apparent from the anecdote of the forest entertainment that was recorded in a contemporary history of Akbar's reign, but is even more striking from an astonishing commission he gave to his new painting studio.
		One of the few facts known about the intriguing enigma of Akbar's Hamzanama is that the commission took 15 years to complete, and involved the work of more than a hundred men in the complicated process of making paper, preparing ink and pigments, hammering gold leaf and binding the pages together in 14 volumes.
		Sadly, fewer than 200 of the original 1,200 paintings of the Hamzanama survive today; no separate copy of the contemporary text is known, or any later recension, meaning that the narrative written down for Akbar survives only where the paintings have survived.
	www.lady.co.uk /articles/0309artA.cfm (1521 words)

	V&A - Hamzanama
		This is the story of one of the highlights of the collection: the series of paintings done for the Emperor Akbar to illustrate the Adventures of Hamza.
		The VandA acquired folios from the Hamzanama because of the keenly observant eyes of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke (1846-1911).
		The hero of the Hamzanama is based on the character of Amir Hamza, an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.
	www.vam.ac.uk /collections/asia/object_stories/hamzanama/index.html (464 words)

	Hamzanama The Master Spy Escapes Circa 1570
		The Hamzanama is the principal cornerstone of early Mughal painting and one of the most innovative of all Islamic manuscripts.
		It was described as being in twelve vast unsewn volumes, painted on cotton, with a total of some fourteen hundred paintings with text on their versos, probably (though scholarly opinion is divided on this point) so that they could be held up by the court reader before Akbar and recited from the back.
		The Hamzanama was recorded as being in the library of Akbar at the end of his life, and it was inherited by Jahangir (1605-1628) and Shah Jahan (1628-1659).
	www.persiancarpetguide.com /sw-asia/Islamic/Mughal/Mugh992.htm (428 words)

	The Hindu : Adventures of Hamza
		An ongoing show of the Hamzanama paintings is a highlight of the New York season.
		THE Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York is the centre of attraction this autumn as a priceless collection of 16th Century Mughal Indian art —; the Hamzanama paintings — is on display.
		The Hamzanama paintings are said to be the finest example of the integration of Persian and Hindu styles.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mag/2002/11/03/stories/2002110300610200.htm (701 words)

	The Adventures of Hamza by Paulanne Simmons
		The Hamzanama was begun in 1557, commissioned by the young Mughal emperor Akbar, who was so impressed with the adventurous tale told, in the Persian tradition, around nomadic campfires and in urban coffeehouses, that he ordered them to be the subject of the first royal manuscript illustrated in India during his reign (1556-1605).
		The Hamzanama combines the exploits of two famous Hamzas: Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, uncle of the prophet, born in 569, converted in 615, killed in battle in 625; and Hamza ibn Abdullah, who led the struggle against Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809).
		But the Hamzanama is neither a biography of a single individual nor an account of the spread of Islam; the great epic belongs rather to the realm of myth and legend, with a touch of the pure fantasy of "The Thousand and One Nights."
	www.nymuseums.com /ps02113t.htm (487 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - 'Art and Soul
		And everywhere you went, you were confronted with looming, superbly printed posters from which peered figures of fearsome dragons writhing in pain, of prophets walking on water with hapless princes clinging to the hems of their robes.
		One knows the Hamzanama — in some manner this label is a misnomer, for the text on which the paintings are based was called the Dastan-i Amir Hamza — well by now.
		Of late, however, the Hamzanama has come to be in the news because of the fine show of which it forms the centre.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030727/spectrum/art.htm (935 words)

	porzellanmalerei-vogel
		The Hamzanama reports of a legendary uncle of the prophet to Mohammad, the youthful hero Hamza which bursts of Mekka to bring the new faith to the peoples of the east.
		Originally the monumental Hamzanama consisted of 1400 large-sized pictures which was painted within 15 years in the imperially Indian workshop.Thoughunchanged have less than 200 sheets remained.
		The Hamzanama is the first large work which was painted for emperors Akbar.
	www.porcelaindesign.com /1-english/haupt/p-vogel.htm (390 words)

	IRVAJ English - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After devouring this show's 61 extravagantly painted pages from the Hamzanama -- it's named after Hamza, the legendary Muslim hero whose adventures it narrates -- my strongest feeling was a hunger to see the other 1,200 or so pictures that have been lost.
		The Hamzanama's artists also grasp the Western idea that figures that are painted smaller can seem farther away.
		And at the same time recognize that the shifts in scale required by Western perspective, with foreground figures shown enlarged in close-up and figures in the background rendered tiny, can be a source of pictorial pleasure in their own right.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2002&m=7&d=22&a=15 (1498 words)

	Rescuing a remarkable picture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Hamzanama ('Book of Hamza') was the most extraordinary project undertaken by artists in Mughal India in the second half of the sixteenth century.
		For 15 years, more than one hundred painters and craftsmen were employed by the emperor Akbar to produce multiple volumes containing the epic tales of Hamza and his band of heroes, who fought against witches, dragons, infidels and giants.
		When one of the museum's curators went to India in 1881 to collect 'modern art', he rescued them from a curiosity shop in Srinagar, Kashmir, where they were being used to block the draughts coming in through the windows.
	www.everyobject.net /story.php?uid=6675 (224 words)

	Miniature Paintings
		This is clearly demonstrated by a comparison of the Hamzanama, painted on cloth, with the Akbarnama, which is rendered on paper.
		The larger size as well as the material itself of the Hamzanama required bolder and broader brush strokes, more expansive compositions, less concern with minutiae, and wider areas of colour, all of which make the paintings somewhat less refined but more spirited than the later, smaller pictures of the Baburnama or the Akbarnama.
		Indeed, one of the principal reasons why the surface texture of Hamzanama paintings is so different from other early Mughal pictures must be the fact that they were painted on coarse cotton.
	www.kumargallery.com /miniaturepaintings.htm (2293 words)

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		The Hamzanama is nothing but an illustration of a ‘dastan’ that tells stories.
		He not only memorised great portions of the story and used to recite and perform them with élan, he also commissioned an illustrated version of it, the great Hamzanama, regarded as the crowning glory of Mughal Art.
		However, the dastan came into its own in India only in the 19th century when it began to be composed in Urdu.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7767844&postID=112238230976295847 (920 words)

	7910
		Hamzanama displays the same strange mix of apparently different - even contrary - worlds which I had seen on the arch.
		Hamzanama is a great miscellany of folk tales, legends, religious discourses and fireside yarns which over time gathered themselves around the story of the travels of the hero Hamza, the father-in-law of the Prophet.
		In Akbar's wonderful version of the book, some of the illustrations are Persian in style: flat and linear with a beautifully precise, angular, geometric perfection.
	meaindia.nic.in /bestoftheweb/2004/05/29bw01.htm (2568 words)

	IRVAJ English - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hamza, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, and his friends are enlivening Washington in the spectacular "Adventures of Hamza" exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian and Near Eastern Art.
		Mogul-art experts consider the "Hamzanama" the most significant manuscript of unbound illustrations and text — it is the largest with the greatest scope — of the many created at the wealthy Mogul court.
		The intensity of the mineral colors have held up well on the cotton supports, and guest curator John Seyller of the University of Vermont helpfully displays a group of the mineral colors used.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2002&m=7&d=7&a=15 (1215 words)

	The Adventures of Hamza; dinosaurs in D.C.; the language of cloth... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akbar himself, a visionary, open-minded ruler who came to power at age 13 and expanded his empire tenfold, gave us the Hamzanama (Story of Hamza), which is to Mughal fine art what the Taj is to architecture—one of the great gifts to the world.
		Now, in the first major exhibition in the United States, 61 of the 200 surviving Hamzanama paintings are on view at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery through September 29.
		When their once-powerful court in Delhi was sacked in 1739, the invader carried off—among other loot—the Peacock Throne and the Hamzanama.
	www.kidscastle.si.edu /issues/2002/august/around_the_mall.php (1780 words)

	Seyller in Smithsonian 'Adventure' : UVM The View
		But since the Hamzanama isn't quite part of the popular canon of art history yet, Seyller addresses the obvious question.
		“The Hamzanama is a Persian text, mostly transmitted in oral form,” he explains.
		The professor’s first seminar in graduate school, 25 years ago, concerned the Hamzanama, and he’s generally focused his research on approximately the same period.
	www.uvm.edu /~uvmpr/theview/article.php?id=472 (629 words)

	New Statesman - Colourful combos
		The 16th-century Hamzanama (Adventures of Hamza) commissioned by Akbar was one of the earliest and certainly the largest and most ambitious series of paintings commissioned by Mughal emperors.
		The hero of the fabulous Hamza tales, which the Hamzanama illustrates and which were once extremely popular in south and central Asia, is based on two historical figures: Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib (the uncle of Prophet Mohammed) and Hamza ibn Abdulla (a less orthodox late eighth- /early ninth-century Iranian folk hero).
		The Hamzanama's earliest illustrations conformed to the Akbar court's inherited taste for Persian art.
	www.newstatesman.com /200303240029 (684 words)

	The Master Spy Escapes c. 1562 - 1577
		This is a sheet from the Hamzanama of Padishah
		The Hamzanama was begun in 1562 (or 1567) and took about 15 years to complete.
		Rogers suggests that the large format on cotton was to allow the pictures to be held up while the story was read.
	www.spongobongo.com /EKOM018.htm (205 words)

	The Adventures of Hamza
		Each oration was given a particular flavor by the storyteller, who departed freely from the written text, which itself varies in composition and structure from manuscript to manuscript.
		An illustrated version of the Hamzanama was commissioned early in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, in the second half of the 16th century, by the teenage emperor himself.
		Consisting of 1400 paintings of an unusually large format, it was one of the earliest products of the royal Mughal painting atelier, and perhaps the most ambitious.
	www.artbook.com /1898592225.html (363 words)

	SAN DIEGO MUSEUM of ART \| The Binney Collection: South Asian Miniature Paintings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Very early in his reign, when he was perhaps as young as fifteen, Akbar set his fledgling painting academy the enormous task of producing a manuscript of the Hamzanama.
		The Hamzanama (Adventures of Hamza) was a rambling popular tale from the Persian oral tradition that recounted the adventures of Amir Hamza, the paternal uncle of Muhammad, as he traveled spreading the word of Islam.
		In this scene, the giant Moor Landhaur (or possibly it is Prince Landhaur's well dressed groom), arrives from the left and is greeted by Umar, Hamza'a loyal comrade.
	www.sdmart.org /exhibition-binney-mughals-akbar2.html (339 words)

	Akbar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akbar also possessed a fair taste of art, architecture and mechanical works.
		Many pieces, including the magnificent Hamzanama, was produced under Akbar.
		Akbar is also credited with many inventions and improvements in the manufacture of matchlocks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emperor_Akbar (4191 words)

	The Hamzanama
		The Hamzanama, or The Story of Hamza is a lavishly illustrated collection of tales concerning the adventures of the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.
		Hindu artists were trained to actually do the work and have left traces of their own culture's artistic style in the use of bright colors.
		One can see influences from the European Renaissance as well but the Hamzanama developed with a style all of its own, busy and colorful, each picture showing many parts of the story happening in different sections of the page.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/506406 (360 words)

	MoorishGirl: This Washington Post review caught
		"In the standard list of artistic masterpieces, [the Hamzanama] may not ring a bell.
		Even the most dedicated museum-goers don't know about the lavishly illustrated manuscript executed for Akbar, great Mughal emperor of India in the 16th century.
		The snapshots of the Hamzanama are breathtakingly gorgeous.
	www.moorishgirl.com /archives/001863.html (127 words)

	Spy Zambur Brings Mahiya to Tawariq, Where They Meet Ustad Khatun: Page from the Hamzanama (Adventures of Hamza), The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Spy Zambur Brings Mahiya to Tawariq, Where They Meet Ustad Khatun: Page from the Hamzanama (Adventures of Hamza), ca.
		The Hamzanama tells the fantastic story of Hamza, an uncle of the Prophet, who traveled the world spreading the teachings of Islam.
		The story was a popular subject for public recitation in coffeehouses, so exciting and full of fantastic elements were the tales.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/08/ssa/hod_23.264.1.htm (267 words)

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